Saiva

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Saiva
Saiva gemmata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Family: Fulgoridae
Genus: Saiva
Distant, 1906
Type species
Saiva gemmata
(Westwood, 1848)
Species
  • Saiva bullata (Distant, 1891)
  • Saiva cardinalis (Butler, 1874)
  • Saiva coccinea (Walker, 1858)
  • Saiva cultellata (Walker, 1857)
  • Saiva formosana Kato, 1929
  • Saiva gemmata (Westwood, 1848)
  • Saiva guttulata (Westwood, 1842)
  • Saiva insularis (Kirby, 1891)
  • Saiva karimbujangi Chew Kea Foo & Porion, 2007
  • Saiva nodata Distant, 1906
  • Saiva phesamensis Ollenbach, 1928
  • Saiva pyrrhochlora (Butler, 1874)
  • Saiva semiannula (Walker, 1858)
  • Saiva transversolineata Baker, 1925

Saiva is a genus of Asian lanternbugs, family Fulgoridae. They are colourful insects, marked boldly in red, blue, white and black, with a prominent slender stalk like structure arising on the head that points upwards or forward.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Distant, W. L. (1906). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Rhynchota. Volume 3. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 192–193.
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